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My bill would do the same for America's National Wildlife Refuge System, which has an operations and maintenance backlog of $3.4 billion after decades of underfunding.

I associate myself also with my good friend Mr. Bishop. How can anyone be against the Boy Scouts? I ask my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

This legislation will allow the Indian Nation's Council of the Boy Scouts to expand a very popular adventure camp in Oklahoma. The Scouts would pay fair market value for an additional 140 acres of Forest Service land to be added to the…

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It only makes sense that they get a minimum wage at least as high as the rest of our country.

Raising the minimum wage is one way to accomplish that goal.

We are going to keep listening and watching as time goes by so we achieve the goal of keeping people working while making sure they earn a decent, fair and dignified wage to support themselves and their families.

$6,344 in a year before taxes. Today, because of the minimum wage law that Congress passed, some of those same people earn at least $5.05.

They are entitled to no less than the attention that we give Americans.

They deserve the attention from Federal Government employees, and it breaks my heart.

I hope that when you look at me, you see an American here, because those Americans out there that I live with are going hungry, seriously.

These are the kinds of public services that most of us don't think about--until the day we need them.

I will tell you that, without this, businesses are hurting. They cannot sign contracts without knowing whether their workers will be available.

Victims of abuse and neglect are more likely to have delays with language or cognitive skills. They are more likely to be arrested for truancy. We also know they have poor health outcomes as adults. Over 35 years ago, Congress enacted…

Mr. Speaker, this legislation means a lot to my constituents on Rota. I would like to add to the Record a letter of support for H.R. 4686 from the mayor of Rota, the Honorable Melchor A. Mendiola. Mr. Speaker, it was residents of Rota who…

Again, I am very happy to join the First Lady in encouraging awareness of the importance of physical education in our schools. I ask all of our colleagues to join us in supporting H.R. 1585, as amended.

For so much of what Americans here on the continent take for granted in their everyday lives, it is not available to my constituents--Americans, too--8,000 miles away.

I feel the terrible responsibility of being the lone voice in Congress to try and raise awareness of the gulf between my constituents and the rest of the Nation.